The Region - News from Aug. 6, 1986

A suspected Los Angeles narcotics dealer wearing a two-pound gold chain and 10 diamond rings that spelled out “Rolls-Royce” was machine-gunned to death outside a Chicago hamburger stand. Chicago police said Willie (Sugar or Sugarfoot) Chapman, 31, was in a phone booth when three men stepped from an alley and opened fire, hitting him 23 times. The gunmen fled, and a woman companion told police she was lying down in the victim’s car and saw nothing. Chicago police said the early morning killing might have been revenge for the recent wounding of a suspected drug dealer in Los Angeles or the killing of another dealer and a woman in Chicago last year. Los Angeles police said Chapman also is William McGee, who served seven years in Joliet Prison in Illinois for a murder there and was arrested here two years ago in connection with an attempted robbery in Hollywood.